Bad Request - Invalid Hostname IIS7

Question

When I try to hit my web app on port 8080 I get the following error

Bad Request - Invalid Hostname
HTTP Error 400. The request hostname is inval

Answer 1

This page by Microsoft describes how to set up access to IIS Server Express from other computers on the local network.

In a nutshell:

1) from a command prompt with admin privileges:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://[your ip address]:8181/ user=everyone

2) In Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, create a new inbound rule for port 8181 to allow external connections

3) In applicationhost.config, in the node for your project, add:

Do NOT add (as was suggested in another answer):

The above wildcard binding broke my access from http://192.168.1.6:8181/